{"id":214183,"date":"2025-05-17T05:20:48","date_gmt":"2025-05-17T10:20:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/no-more-sticky-patches-3d-printed-wearable-monitors-health-through-skin-gases"},"modified":"2025-05-17T05:20:48","modified_gmt":"2025-05-17T10:20:48","slug":"no-more-sticky-patches-3d-printed-wearable-monitors-health-through-skin-gases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/05\/no-more-sticky-patches-3d-printed-wearable-monitors-health-through-skin-gases","title":{"rendered":"No more sticky patches: 3D-printed wearable monitors health through skin gases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/no-more-sticky-patches-3d-printed-wearable-monitors-health-through-skin-gases2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Wearable technologies are revolutionizing health care, but design limitations in adhesive-based personal monitors have kept them from meeting their full potential.<\/p>\n<p>A new University of Arizona study, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-025-59629-x\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in <i>Nature Communications<\/i>, describes a longer-lasting, 3D-printed, adhesive-free wearable capable of providing a more comprehensive picture of a user\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/physiological+state\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">physiological state<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The device, which measures <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/water+vapor\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">water vapor<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/skin\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">skin<\/a> emissions of gases, continuously tracks and logs <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/physiological+data\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">physiological data<\/a> associated with dehydration, metabolic shifts and stress levels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wearable technologies are revolutionizing health care, but design limitations in adhesive-based personal monitors have kept them from meeting their full potential. A new University of Arizona study, published in Nature Communications, describes a longer-lasting, 3D-printed, adhesive-free wearable capable of providing a more comprehensive picture of a user\u2019s physiological state. The device, which measures water vapor [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1495,1977],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-wearables"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=214183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}